Best Practices for Beginning to Leverage Cloud Technology for Business Growth
February 7, 2014
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Chris Patterson.
As businesses look to leverage cloud technology to drive growth, many times the question IT leaders within the company ask is, “Where do I start? What part of my infrastructure should I move into the cloud first?” IT leaders must pick a place to begin with cloud adoption. The decision becomes easier when teams focus on incremental adoption, starting with small, low-risk applications that can be easily tested and improved through an iterative approach before fully launching. Here are some best practices businesses should consider when getting started with cloud technology.
Identify the true problem and define a solution
The most effective method for getting started with cloud adoption is to identify the greatest pain point in a company’s IT ecosystem. The cloud solution should be targeted and architected to ease that pain point. Often times identifying the biggest IT challenge requires a deep dive into the business and its IT systems. For example, NaviSite recently worked with a company in Syracuse, N.Y. to implement a technology solution to help solve its business challenges. The company’s IT team perceived its infrastructure as the biggest challenge, and was eager to deploy a full Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution…
However, as the IT team took a complete and objective inventory to understand their challenges at a very granular level, they came to realize that what the business truly needed was an enterprise-class file sharing solution designed to meet their specific challenges. As a result, instead of starting with a full-blown IaaS, the team began with a file sharing solution, and was able to immediately solve some of their business challenge with less investment. The key was understanding the challenge at the core, and implementing a cloud-based solution to solve that challenge…
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